A few days ago, America marked a special day not only in the history of this country, but in the history of the world.

It was the first time a group of people were willing to sacrifice everything – their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor – for independence from a foreign power and the right to govern themselves.

Amazingly, just a few days before that, nine members of the U.S. Congress – sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States that protects those important concepts of independence, sovereignty from foreign powers and influences and, most importantly, self-government – invited a foreign power to oversee America's next election.

Led by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, the nine members of Congress sent a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking him to "deploy election observers" across the country prior to the November vote.

Now let me put the kindest face on this action by Johnson and her colleagues: It's high treason.

The very mildest response from her colleagues should be to throw out of office Johnson and the other eight members of the House who signed this embarrassing letter.

Of course, that won't happen.

Long ago the House and Senate abdicated their constitutional responsibilities to hold their own members accountable to the law of the land and to standards of conduct and behavior higher than just ordinary citizens.

We no longer hold members of Congress to even that most minimal standard.

Now the Congress is littered with know-nothing subversives like Johnson.

These are people who have no concept of what makes America special in the world. They have no concept of the horrors perpetrated around the world by dictators and would-be dictators. They have no concept that America as a nation under God is and has been the great hope of the world.

They are clueless.

The United Nations is a bad joke. It's a scandal-plagued institution from which the United States should extricate itself before it's too late. It represents everything against which our Founding Fathers fought and died. It is an unaccountable band of international busybody elitists. It is a totally un-American concept.

America was founded on the principle of representative government and independence. The U.N. is not representative of the people of the world. Countries that give their people no voice at all in government get equal or greater representation than countries like the United States that operate on the principle of self-government and republicanism.

Inviting the U.N. to engage in monitoring of a U.S. election is an attempt to humiliate America on the world stage – to suggest that the U.S. is no better than a tin-pot dictatorship. It would be one thing for some disenchanted citizen to make such an effort; it is another matter when an elected official in Washington does it.

Has Eddie Bernice Johnson ever read the Declaration of Independence? Has she ever read the Constitution? If she doesn't like our system of government here and thinks Kofi Annan and other foreigners have something better to offer, why doesn't she move out? Why does she flagrantly violate the Constitution she swore to uphold in an attempt to embarrass the country that has given her so much?

One more thing.

The House of Representatives should open an investigation of this incident immediately. The American people have a right to know – prior to November's election – who else signed this letter. Who are the other members of the House that committed this treasonable action?

I can think of no higher priority for House Speaker Dennis Hastert that to police his own body of government, to hold his own members to a minimal ethical and legal standard of accountability.

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